Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU 3.0 ?

[Thomas Huth]

On 23.11.2017 14:57, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 23 November 2017 at 13:51, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 23/11/2017 14:13, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 23 November 2017 at 13:02, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> In theory I don't like it either (and I hadn't thought about it until
>>>> today).  In practice, qemu-kvm is not going away from
>>>> blogs/scripts/tutorials in a decade, so we might as well embrace it...
>>> Isn't this distro-specific? In ubuntu by default there isn't
>>> any wrapper, and if you do install the optional 'qemu-kvm' package
>>> the wrapper it provides is /usr/bin/kvm, not /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.
>>
>> Fedora also has no wrapper in the qemu-system-x86 package, and only
>> "qemu-kvm" installs one.  In practice if you install the virtualization
>> package group you get it.  What about Ubuntu?
> 
> Well, I didn't have the qemu-kvm package installed until I
> pulled it in to check the wrapper name.
> 
> My point is more that if there's no consensus between distros
> about what the wrapper script name should be then as upstream
> if we provide a qemu-kvm then we might be helping Fedora/RedHat
> but we're just increasing confusion for those distros that
> used a different name
We could simply check whether argv[0] ends in "kvm" ... that should work
with both "kvm" and "qemu-kvm".

 Thomas